John 13:3

Jesus acted in full awareness that the Father had given all things into His hands and that He had come from and was returning to God. It shows that His humble service flowed from, not despite, His supreme authority.

Cross-references · 21

• John 3:35The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
• Matt 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
• Heb 1:2But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.
• Matt 28:18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
• John 8:42Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
• John 17:2For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
• Eph 1:21–22far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
• John 16:27–28For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
• Phil 2:9–11Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
• 1 Cor 15:27For “God has put everything under His feet.” Now when it says that everything has been put under Him, this clearly does not include the One who put everything under Him.
• Heb 2:8–9and placed everything under his feet.” When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.
• John 7:33So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
• John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
• John 17:5–8And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
• John 5:22–27Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
• John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
• Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
• Acts 2:36Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”
• John 7:29but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
• John 17:11–13I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
• John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.

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